First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – says that its 11MWAC Rancho Seco ...
Tags: First Solar, Thin-film photovoltaic, CdTe
Turkey continues to take steps toward increasing its own security of supply, as energy use is expected to double by 2023, triggering a requirement for around 100 GW of capacity, although market participants said the current "crisis" in the ...
Tags: Gas Market, Gas plant
Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
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Nations that are considering nuclear energy must grapple with its high capital costs and Fukushima-scale risk. An energy-policy riptide along the English Channel shows how unpredictable the calculations can be: Both France and the United ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Nuclear Plants, Energy
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it was awarded a Technical Consultancy Agreement from EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited to support its power station projects in the United Kingdom. Officials did not disclose the ...
Tags: Jacobs, EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited, vice president
The global LNG market is expected to see a peak in supply tightness in 2014, rising Asian demand will likely match the average 0.9 Bcf/day additional liquefaction capacity expected to come onto the market in the year, Barclays Research said ...
Shale gas production in the UK could boost tax revenues and improve the nation's trade balance, but is unlikely to reduce gas prices, and is no short-term fix for national energy needs, according to Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for ...
The proportion of UK electricity generated from gas fell to 16-year lows last year as cheaper coal prices spurred generators into increasing coal-fired power to its greatest share of the electricity mix since 1996, government data shows. ...
Tags: Gas-Fired Power, Chemicals
UK natural gas for same-day delivery rose to 108 pence/therm Monday morning -- a price the market has not closed above since 2006 -- due to unplanned North Sea outages. Stormy weather caused a failure in the Norwegian power grid system ...
Tags: gas, natural gas, oil pipeline system
The paint and coatings industry has put a tremendous emphasis on the Chinese market where the largest international paint manufacturers all have built major operations and continue to invest there. Chinese paints and coatings ...
Tags: China, Investment, Continue, Expand, PPG
IRL has published the sixth edition of its report, "A Profile of the Chinese Paint Industry." The report updates IRL's previous study released in 2009 and includes the latest industry trends and up-to-date statistics. Chinese paints and ...
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